Has Columbus' ship been found in waters off of Haiti?

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Updated 5:05 pm, Tuesday, May 13, 2014

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Christopher Columbus, you may remember, was an explorer and “discoverer” but he was also a doomsdayer! Here’s how one university professor put it for a PBS series on the apocalypse: … if we look at the history of Columbus and some of his writings, particularly his letters and in the ‘Book of Prophecies’ that he put together, we can see that Columbus thought of himself very much in terms of the apocalyptic tradition. And he felt that his voyages of discovery were ushering in a millennial age, an age of a Last World Emperor, a Spanish Last World Emperor, who would recapture the holy apocalyptic city of Jerusalem and initiate a messianic period.” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) less

Christopher Columbus, you may remember, was an explorer and “discoverer” but he was also a doomsdayer! Here’s how one university professor put it for a PBS series on the apocalypse: … if we look at the ... more

Has Columbus' ship been found in waters off of Haiti?

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - An underwater explorer says he may have found the long-sought wreckage of one of Christopher Columbus' original ships off northern Haiti. But the find is far from confirmed.

Explorer Barry Clifford says circumstantial evidence is overwhelming that a wreck he and his son first explored back in 2003 is the Santa Maria. Clifford tells The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the evidence includes what appears to be a 15th century cannon and ballast stones that appear to come from Spain or Portugal.

The director of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University says it would be a major find, but cautions skepticism. Kevin Crisman says many Spanish ships wrecked off Haiti and it will be difficult to confirm this is the Santa Maria.